2017: Year of the Book + the Wedding + the Freedom

It's true. I'm writing a book about my dating project. Less a "how-to" and more of a "how-the-hell-did-I-survive" and "how-surviving-made-me-more-human" type of book.

It's also true I'm getting married in the July...in Italy!

And yes, it's true I've started my own company to help people follow their fears in their careers and life.

So yeah it's a hell of a year. I'm filled up with energy, excitement, creative and personal freedom.

Thank you for your continued support and love. If you'd like to share your thoughts about the 100FD book take my quick questionnaire here.

1 Year After #BeMy100: I Have a Boyfriend. For Real. Seriously. I'm Not Lying.

Remember a year ago? I finished my 100 First Dates project with a bang. I had fun, new friends, good stories, epic life learnings, and I remained a single, happy lady. 

Then this April I met a boy on Happn. We dated. We fell in love. We are moving in together early next year.  

Just like those annoying coupled-off people always say: It is easy. It feels right. I just know. Miraculously he feels exactly the same way.  

Reuben is a talented photographer and filmmaker, so I wanted to reveal my secret to you all with a simple, perfect, pull-at-your-heart-strings-and-still-make-you-laugh video...but you know what? Life and love got in the way. 

I do hope to make a film with him someday. I do plan to write a book next year. I do plan to love him with all of my heart and to cherish our relationship every day. I remain a happy lady. 

With love,  Lisa 

PS - Be my friend over at my latest project --> Follow the Fear: Leadership through Improv

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I Need A Date Night & So Do You

I started going to NYC Rooftop Films eons ago (meaning I was under 30, ah those were the days, sigh). I watched films on the roof of a school in the East Village, the roof of an old canning factory in Gowanus, sometimes the screenings weren't even on a roof at all, but they were always outside on a lawn or a courtyard and the experiences represented everything that is summer: short, beautiful, innocent, fleeting, HOT.

This Saturday on a different rooftop in Brooklyn I will be taking a date to see some shorts (while wearing shorts) explore my most favorite topic - ROMANCE. If you're in NYC grab two tickets, Tinder-up a date, and sit next to me. 

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ROOFTOP FILMS PRESENTS:

FIRST COMES LOVE: ROMANTIC SHORT FILMS

Saturday 7/25 - On the roofs of Industry City - $15 online or at the door

Tickets & Info Here

Background: 

Started 19 years ago by Mark Elijah Rosenberg and has since been taken over by Dan Nuxoll. Dan and Mark were seeing so many "romantic" films that they decided they would create a shorts program around the theme. Of course, the idea of romance was stretched beyond what one might traditionally associate with the word, and began to encompass all the various ideas and interpretations of what is romantic. 

First Comes Love is the second of this years Romance programs (Love Comes Later was the first). The program is populated with films that have a sweeter take on the idea of romance (Love Comes Later was more twisted). The films come from all over the world (which speaks to the universally confusing and confounding nature of the beast). Some of the films are making their US premier at Rooftop, while others have previously played in the borough of Brooklyn, but resonate so much that we can't help but share them with our audience. 

No matter who you are or what your past or present experience with love may be, you will certainly find something in this program that reminds you of the beauty and heartache of love.